These voting patterns tend to stay relatively consistent within a group, even as people age.
Instead of stringing together his research into some kind of running narrative like Bill Bufords Among the Thugs, Lowles bombards us with dates and names and places so hard we are forced to derive our own patterns just to stay awake.
"This is a trend; this pattern is going to stay," says Jay L. Chronister, a professor of higher education at the University of Virginia.
Last week world-renowned climatologist Sir John Houghton warned that extreme weather patterns are here to stay, and the risk of flooding will rise.
When looking more closely at the pattern for the intention to stay with respect to working-time characteristics, Figure 1 shows that, in the Netherlands, it seems to be lowest for people with a commuting time above an hour, followed by people working non-standard working hours, part-time or overtime hours.
In Kentucky, Gov. Steven L. Beshear, a Democrat, is about to sign a bill that makes permanent a pilot program that offers qualifying inmates credit for time served on parole against sentence dates, in part to avoid a pattern of inmates' choosing to stay in prison rather than risking later parole violations.
That pattern may be here to stay because of climate change, says co-author Edward Hanna, an earth scientist at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.
His research group was studying how the beetles used the polarized light patterns of the moon to stay on their paths, when one moonless night they made a surprising observation the beetles maintained straight trajectories.
"Until people are convinced the global economic recovery is truly here to stay, this pattern is unlikely to really go away".
The Rockettes taught Mr. Dendy "a lot about the tricks of unison, about watching each other to stay in patterns," he said.
